Permanent Ear Damage

Famous quotes containing the words permanent, ear and/or damage:

    “Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    ““Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction?
    Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “I came to explore the wreck.
    The words are purposes.
    The words are maps.
    I came to see the damage that was done
    and the treasures that prevail.”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)